RIP

The publisher of the local newspaper continues to write columns disputing the conjecture that it’s dying. Those who disagree point out the ongoing cuts in staffing and page count.

That’s the body and not the soul, which would be more of my concern. On today’s editorial page, there’s a piece alluding to “the anti-immigrant lunatic fringe.” There are a significant number of people who oppose violation of our duly legislated law (as in illegal border crossing), but I am not aware of them opposing the legal act of immigration. And since the column proffers the word “lunatic,” doesn’t skewing reality and stating it as a fact pretty much define it?

This is the page for opinion. But, when you publish what crosses the line into ouright distortion, you’re not dying as a newspaper. You’re dead.